My Teenage Dream PC - Ricer PC Part 1 

It's more than 4 YEARS LATER, and we're still waiting for part 2.

Been almost a year since they said "a couple months." Still waiting...

Linus: "a couple of months" Anakin: "LIAR!"

4:15 Linus: "Looks like a pin is slightly bent. There is a technique for this" Also Linus: **Slams CPU into socket**

"Stay tuned" ... 2 years later they do a vlog and find the PC project gathering dust on some shelf.

Repaste the GPU DELID THE CPU RUN PINBALL AT 240 FPS

I love how alex look at the parts of the building thinking what is this?

everyone! chant with me! PART 2!... PART 2!... PART 2!...

If there is one thing that a 2004 ricer PC needs, is not RGB. BUT COLD CATHODES.

"Uh, my grandparents?" Linus.exe has encountered an error.

13:07 “that really sorta does bring to light-“ **screen dims**

I can’t wait for them to give the PC a makeover in only a couple of months!

Someone: Shows linus a sleeper Linus: *throws reverse card*

Linus: "I'm disappointed with this performance" Also Linus: *Gets solid 60 fps with 2004 hardware*

"Name something else that has maintained intercompatibility for 15 years" "Uhhh my grandparents" That had me dead on the floor 😂

It's October 2020, would love to see a part 2 of this😭 doing the things you always wanted to do and couldn't to old hardware is kinda a favorate of mine

You have to do the complete benchmark runs from that time. 3DMark2001, Aquamark, SuperPi... You know the drill.

You should water cool it, and then overclock the GPU and CPU more.

3:20 Me: "Don't touch the socket!!!" Linus: *Touchie touchie touchie*

honestly touched when linus let alex turn it on. you could tell this was his wet dream of a pc yet he still gave the honor of pushing the button to someone else

Delid the cpu, liquid metal it, liquid cool it, and overclock the shit out of it. Take apart the gpu, clean it, and use new thermal paste, overclock it. Put it in a case that has both a 5 1/4 drive bay for a disk drive as well as a 3 1/2 for floppy. I think it's only fitting to use an older style case. Raidmax? Era-correct sound card with HD AUDIO!!!! (only the cool kids had hd audio) And of course the most important thing is the roller ball mouse, because come on, those were the shit. Edit: scratch the delid, I didnt realize that the chip was soldered. For the OS, running windows 7 in "performance mode" gives a look and feel VERY similar to windows xp, and will allow for steam to be installed. Also, for anyone wondering why they didnt "max out" the ram, they did. The CPU is only 32 bit, and thus any operating system installed must also be 32 bit. Assuming they're using a version of Windows designed for home use, this puts a hard cap of 4gb on the max ram size. Edit 2: As the astute among you may have realized, delid may actually be a thing. Some of these P4s were able to be delidded, as not all of them actually used solder as the TIM. An aside, yes, by "roller ball" mouse, I actually meant a "track ball" mouse. My apologies.

4:16 "There's a bit of a technique for this." *Slams CPU into its socket* "You just kinda have to wiggle-wobble it." Yea... sure, ok, got it ._.

It's been over a year now and we're all still waiting for part 2

That HDD is definitely the coolest HDD I've ever seen. Shame that the project has been abandoned.

Hey Linus, is there any chance we'll see a Part 2 before 2020?

"My grandparents" Geniunely cracked me up.

This is awesome. This was when i was at the height of my PC gaming in college. brings back great memories of my builds.

Alex: "my grandparents" Me: "i'm dying"

"My grandparents" Never change haha

WE NEED A SOUNDBLASTER! AND AN IDE OPITCAL DVD AND CD (two different drives) 😤😤😤

It's cool how terms like sleeper and ricer transfer from car enthusiast to pc enthuaists Ive always loved seeing people enjoying their hobbys and sharing their knowledge

It's almost 5 YEARS LATER, and we're still waiting for part 2.

I'd like to see the best PC from every year and see how they all compare.

5:58 "A CD player? I think you mean an optical drive." I'm actually dying xD

remember, that it's never too late to upload part 2...

This was my ultra-mega system that I used during my time at music production college. P4/HT/XP. MANNNN. Linus, I feel this too!

Not complete without a Soundblaster Live with the 5 1/4" bay addon

How painfully aware it makes me that I am older then Linus when I watched this video and my response was, huh that is a lot more modern then I was expecting..

Awe damn, I was really hoping I'd be able to binge this build in one shot.. 😭

I'm 37 years old and I've never cared about how PC looks. But that raptor x hard drive it is so beautiful. Whenever my hard drives fail I always take them apart and admire the beauty and precision of the machining.

I'd love to see how much an SSD could benefit a system that old.

Doom 3 Quality adjusts VRAM load. Graphics tweaking are inside Advanced Options!!

Wow, blast from the past! Those old school Raptor drives were beast!

I love this so much! Awesome concept for a build!

What maintains compatibility for 15 years? 3.5 headphone jack beat you there... oh, wait

Agp gpu,pentium 4 single core 2 ish ghz,pata,optical drive, floppy disk,mismatch pc board color Yep thats definetly my first pc

Yeah......I use to build these 2-3 per day back in the days. Talk about a long-term PC build THESE models would last for 10+ years XD. Very very nostalgic feeling watching this video, so thank you for it very much so. Brings back some serious building & programming memories lol

Thank you Alex, first suggestion was one of my favorite games back in the day, Unreal Tournament

7:10 Alex is laughing his arse off holding in “your mom” joke because Linus is his boss.

Please play and get Frame rates (especially 0.1% lows) for : Medal of Honour allied assault Call of duty (original and/or united offensive) Battlefield 1942 and the desert combat mod Counter strike 1.6 Halo Warcraft 3 World of warcraft classic Gta: Vice City and San Andreas

I'm half way through (again) and y'all are killing me I NEED to see the result

Please make part 2! I was devastated when I reached the end of the video and found out it never came out. I got into custom PCs only a couple years later than Linus, so I want to see what sort of 2005 shenanigans they can put in there. I need some EL wire, some cold-cathode tubes, UV-reactive spray painted motherboards, edge-lit etched acrylic windows, raid 1 HDDs with windows to see the synchronized arms... There's so much "cool" stuff from this era that we don't see anymore, because you can just go out and buy almost any mod you want. (Which isn't bad, but it takes some of the charm out of it.)

Overclocking Watercooling (The Chiller) RGB Cable Modding Run Battlefield 2 Fin

The front panel audio header is above the gameport header with the two blue jumpers still installed

I love the contrast in their voice pitch and tone.

With the Raptor you got the holy grail. Well done. CoolerMaster had heatspreaders like the OCZ had them for your memorysticks. Those were the days ( when RGB were 4 different coloured leds ). Yeah baby!!

Mount the optical disc drive in the back. The evolv x supports a mini itx board in the top, so theres already a perfect sized hole. Alex fabs a bracket, and you mount it there.

Real men had an Athlon 64 and the GeForce 6800 Ultra.

Then: 400W power supply was over the top Now: 1300W power supply should be fine

I like these kinds of old builds .. Old But Still Legend 😍

Don't forget a creative sound blaster preferably a Fx-i

Nobody: Linustechtips after successfully building a computer for the 99999th time: AYYYYYYYYYYY

I love retro hardware and to boost it with the best stuff of that generation to build an ultimate retro PC.

Almost 4 years later and no part 2

I owned that exact same setup back in 2006 Pentium 4 2.4GHz @ 3.2GHz, GTX 6800 Ultra, WD Raptor 10k rpm

"There's a bit of a technique to it..." *JAMS IT IN*

Dang I remember these days. Not doing it myself, but watching my step dad doing it. Long live the cream cases!

Wow! AGP! So many memories!

My biggest suggestion: plug the fan in lmao

yooo that's my current pc(without the upgrade) edit: it's not my pc guys chill

Retro videos are cool, Linus! You just need to periodically dilute your content with such trips to the past. It's just incomparable when a fit of nostalgia overtakes you. Great video!!!

The Aopen AX4B-533 Tube would make for a fascinating ricer build. It's key selling points: -Black pcb in a world of green and tan -Fancy huge "audiophile" capacitors -Vaccum tube on the audio output stage -Routed through substandard onboard audio

The moment Linus said 'High School' and '2004' I felt damned damned old. Also, "my grandparents" made me laugh out loud. Cheers Alex :)

Would be nice to see if it'll run classic WoW when it launches. Also would be a good opportunity for a GOG promotion.

Man, considering I was in highschool from 02-06 this hits home haha.

13:25 that smile xD "ehh old good xp face"

needs a Kenwood 72x cdrom a Sound Blaster Audigy card some cold cathode tubes 5 1/4 bay fan controller hub with obnoxious dials water-cool it with a fish tank pump and old clamp style tubing into a 5 1/4" reservoir. oh and some UV reactive cable sleaving and many different colors.

Wait a min, 150 bucks for that motherboard? I got one laying in my closet, would have given it away for free. o.o

Look how excited he is

When I was Linus' age the Cooler Master V8 was a dream cooler for your sweet lga 775 and and the kids with the baracuda drives were gaming hard. 4 gigs of DDR2 @800mhz and an 8800GTS and you could run Oblivion at 45+fps. at 1024x768.

Linus exposed the compatible power supplies, next gen we'll be getting new motherboard connections for power, RIP.

My Teenage Dream PC from 2004 was: DFI LANParty nF4 SLI-DR + Athlon 64 4000+ with 6800 ultra and this Intel setup would be destroyed...

I became tech on 2003,seeing this make me cry in happy ways. Thanks dude. Agp powered GPU,p4 ...omg

This takes me back to my 2nd PC. My first computer was a stock Gateway Windows 98 machine. By like 2004 it was chugging so my parents and I went out to a "tech store" and had them build us a PC. They honestly screwed us on the price for the hardware they put in it but it was good for like 5 years. Hearing AGP and Pentium IV takes me back.

Overclock! Liquid cool! Push that CPU/GPU to its max.

Get an old version of any editing software and try rendering a video filmed with a camera from that era or something similar and look at the render times and stuff!

"Name something else that maintained intercompatibility for 15 years.." Small block Chevy

I was really wanting to see the hard drive in action, it looked pretty neat

OMG, you even picked a DEMO - version of Doom? "sniffle" That brings up so much memorys, a DEMO disc, those were the days...

RGB improves CPU frequency by 13,37% minimum

I was still in High School around 2004. I graduated the year after totally awesome dream from then.

my dream PC was an AMD Barthon 3200+ on Abit NF7. back then it was beyond my financial reach, so I settled for an Barthon 2600+ on Epox 8RDA3i if I remember correctly. the rest of the money went in 512MB Ram, some 128MB graphic card and a nice 80GB HDD.

Some companies are really good about keeping old drivers and software available. Creative still has stuff as old as Sound Blaster 1.5 drivers up for download.

In the same era I was a big AMD/ATI fan and my build would have looked like this. CPU - AMD Mobile 2500+ GPU - ATI 9800 PRO MOBO - DFI Lanparty Nforce 2 Chipset RAM - 2x 4BG Crutail Ballistix Tracer HDD - 2x WD Raptor 10k RPM in RAID 0

Please please PLEASE, make the part 2!

Swear down I want a pc with xp on. That boot screen brings back so many memories.

ANY UPDATES ON THIS? NEED PART 2!! Love yall.

Need to build a dual cpu server board XP system. With graphics sound etc Circa 2000 to 2004

“Wiggle wobble it” then absolutely smacks it into the board

Oooo, I got recomended to this again. Wheres part 2 Linus? Can't wait.